Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 9/7/08

Def Jam recording artist Young Jeezy takes the top spot with his highly anticipated junior album Recession [click to read] selling 259,700 in its first week. The Game [click to read] takes #3 with LAX [click to read] selling 88,700. He was beat out by a new release from the re-united New Kids on the Block, respectively.

After reigning the charts for weeks, Lil Wayne [click to read] clings to the top 10 this week, selling 46,500 more copies of his double platinum album Tha Carter III [click to read]. Rihanna‘s re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad holds down the #13 spot with 32,100 copies sold. Rounding out the top 5 for Hip Hop and R&B is Diddy‘s newest protoge, Donny Klang. Though he couldn’t match the sucess of Danity Kane and Day 26‘s [click to read] #1 albums, Donny makes his mark this week at #19 on the charts, selling just under 22,000 copies.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Ice Cube [click to read] comes in at #26 with 18,400 copies sold of Raw Footage [click to read]. MTV reality stars Shwayze hold down the #35 spot with their self-titled album selling 12,100 copies this week.M.I.A‘s Kala climbs five spots to #43 this week with 10,600 copies sold. Nas holds on to the #45 position with 10,100 copies of his Untitled [click to read] album sold this week, while Slim Thug‘s supergroup Boss Hogg Outlawz debut their sophomore album, Back By Blockular Demand, at #48 with 9,700 copies sold.

Other Notables

 With new releases on the horizon form Nelly [click to read] and LL Cool J , who will come out on top? Stay tuned as DX brings you the play by play.